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Microsoft has revealed a new piece of fitness software that will be free for Xbox Live Gold members. Xbox Fitness is an Xbox One title that builds upon the many fitness games released for Kinect over the last few years. It features a number of names that will apparently be …
Read More »Sony confirms Kinect-like voice and gesture control for PS4
PS4 users will be able to control some elements of the console using gestures and voice. The news, Engadget reports, comes from the Tokyo Game Show. It is understood that Sony’s PlayStation Eye was at one stage a compulsory element of the console that was to be bundled with the …
Read More »Life after Kickstarter
Develop discovers how an ambitious crowdfunded game led to an indie's own rise, fall and eventual redemption
Read More »Microsoft confident it can overcome Kinect’s "perception problem"
Kinect being at the heart of Xbox One will lead to its eventual acceptance among even its most ardent critics, Microsoft believes. That Kinect was an optional extra with Xbox 360 meant that its implementation was sporadic and unreliable. The fact that Kinect 2.0 shipping with every Xbox One eradicates …
Read More »Only eight countries get Xbox One voice control at launch
Kinect control of the Xbox One will be limited to just eight of the console’s 13 launch countries in November. Xbox One will ship with voice control support for five regions: the UK, US, Canada, France and Germany. That therefore means that the console’s other launch countries – Australia, Austria, …
Read More »Microsoft blames Kinect localisation, and not supply constraints, for Xbox One delays
The complexities behind localising Kinect for numerous languages are causing Xbox one launch delays across eight European territories, Microsoft has claimed. It was recently announced that The Xbox One’s launch has been delayed in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland. Speaking to OXM, the firm’s head of …
Read More »Kinect localisation issues behind Xbox One delays
'People assume there's a volume issue which in fact there isn't,' says Microsoft exec
Read More »Kinect brings living room mo-cap to Project Spark
Xbox One title enables users to harness motion sensing tech to add personalised character animations
Read More »Ubisoft’s Fighter Within confirmed for Xbox One
Ubisoft’s Kinect-controlled Fighter Within has been confirmed for Xbox One. The brawler title will be a sequel to Fighters Uncaged and will offer full Kinect control. Fighter Within first surfaced last week following domain name registrations and a Google cache snapshot of the site, which detailed the Xbox One title. …
Read More »There will be no Kinect-less Xbox One SKU, Microsoft says
Microsoft’s strategic shift regarding Xbox One and Kinect will only stretch so far. The platform holder announced earlier this week that Xbox One will now be able to function without Kinect being connected. The firm had previously said that the console wouldn’t function unless the motion camera. But calls for …
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